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MOSCOW---Samantha Sto-
sur will face doubles partner
Svetlana Kuznetsova in the
semifinals of the Kremlin
Cup after both players won
in straight sets yesterday.
Stosur extended her
unbeaten run to eight matches
by defeating Ana Ivanovic 7-
5, 6-4, while Kuznetsova beat
second-seeded Roberta Vinci
6-2, 6-3.
In the men s quarterfinals,
top-seeded Richard Gasquet
ousted Russian wild-card
entry Teimuraz Gabashvili 6-
3, 6-2, while defending cham-
pion Andreas Seppi of Italy
made it into his fifth semifinal
of the season after Edouard
Roger-Vasselin retired with a
neck strain while trailing 5-2.
In a rematch of last year s
three-set semifinal match
between former Grand Slam
champions, Ivanovic took a 3-
0 lead but Stosur broke back
twice to win the opener. An
early break in the second set
was enough for the Australian
to defeat the former top-
ranked Ivanovic for the second straight
year.
"Probably having a match won here
last year, I certainly had a few things
in my head that I wanted to try to do
today against her," Stosur said. "And
right from the start it was kind of work-
ing and from that my confidence kind
of built, and I was able to keep going
and play well till the end."
The Russian will be playing in her
first semifinal this season and her first
at a home event since she lost to Serena
Williams in 2007.
In the second semifinal today, Anas-
tasia Pavlyuchenkova will face fifth-
seeded Simona Halep.
Pavlyuchenkova eliminated Klara
Zakopalova 6-0, 6-4, while Halep rout-
ed Alisa Kleybanova 6-1, 6-1.
In the men s tournament, Gasquet
broke early in the first set and took a
4-0 lead in the second to eliminate the
last Russian left in the draw.
Gasquet will next play Croatian vet-
eran Ivo Karlovic, who advanced to his
second semifinal of the season by win-
ning eight consecutive games and land-
ing 11 aces to rout Russian teenager
Karen Khachanov 6-4, 6-0.
Roger-Vasselin strained his neck dur-
ing the warm-up and had it treated
after the first game.
"From his first service game and
down in the match he couldn t serve
normally," Seppi said. "I would never
like to win like this but sometimes it
happens."
Seppi will next play Mikhail
Kukushkin, who beat Andrey Golubev
6-4, 7-6 (4). (AP)
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VIENNA---Top-seeded Jo-Wil-
fried Tsonga outlasted the 149th-
ranked Dominic Thiem of Aus-
tria 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (3) yesterday
to reach the semifinals of the
Erste Bank Open.
Tsonga will take on Robin Haase
of the Netherlands for a place in
tomorrow s final, while second-
seeded Tommy Haas of Germany
faces Lukas Rosol of Czech
Republic in the other semifinal.
The eighth-ranked Frenchman,
who won the event in 2011, missed
a match point at 5-4 in the final
set but converted his second
chance in the tiebreaker after 2
hours, 15 minutes as Thiem hit a
forehand long.
The 20-year-old Thiem, who
played in only his second quar-
terfinal, said the match was
"unbelievable."
Haas reached his seventh semi-
final of the season by defeating
fifth-seeded Radek Stepanek of
the Czech Republic 7-6 (10), 6-
3. The victory kept the 12th-
ranked German in the running to
qualify for next month s ATP
World Tour Finals in London.
Haas failed to serve out the
opening set at 6-5 but won the
tiebreaker after saving four set
points for Stepanek. He converted
his only break point in the second
set.Haase, who won both his career
titles in Austria, rallied to defeat
third-seeded Fabio Fognini of Italy
6-7 (4), 6-1, 6-1 to advance to
his fourth semifinal of the sea-
son.
Earlier, Rosol beat Ruben
Bemelmans of Belgium 6-3, 1-6,
6-3. Rosol broke the 176th-ranked
qualifier once each in the first and
final sets to reach his second career
semifinal, and first since winning
his maiden title in Bucharest in
April. (AP)
Tsonga joins Haas, Haase, Rosol in Vienna semis
Stosur faces
Kuznetsova in
Kremlin Cup semifinals
Australia's Samantha Stosur returns a ball to
Serbia's Anna Ivanovic during a quarter inal
match at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in
Moscow, Russia, yesterday. Stosur won 7-5, 6-4.
AP PHOTO
BASEL---World No 1 Rafael
Nadal says he won t play at the
Swiss Indoors in Basel starting
on Monday.
Yesterday, Nadal posted on his
Facebook page a message saying:
"sorry to announce that I won t
travel to Basel in Switzerland but
after very exhausting weeks I have
to regroup my fitness and my
body."
Nadal was sidelined for seven
months after hurting his left knee
in the summer of 2012.
But he came back strong and
beat Novak Djokovic to win the
US Open in August for his 13th
career Grand Slam title.
Since then, Nadal has played for
Spain in the Davis Cup and lost
to Djokovic in the final in Beijing
and to Juan Martin del Potro in
the semifinals in Shanghai last
week.
Nadal says he will try to "come
back to the Swiss Indoors next
year." (AP)
Nadal withdraws from Swiss Indoors
LUXEMBOURG---Top-seeded Caro-
line Wozniacki of Denmark held off
Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia 6-3, 3-
6, 6-3 yesterday to reach the semifi-
nals of the Luxembourg Open.
After both players struggled to hold
serve at the start, Wozniacki had the
only break of the third set to clinch the
win.
She ll face the winner of third-seeded
Sabine Lisicki and Karin Knapp, who
played their quarterfinal later.
On a day full of three-setters, Ste-
fanie Voegele of Switzerland beat sec-
ond-seeded Sloane Stephens of the
United States 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, and will
face Annika Beck of Germany in Sat-
urday s semifinals. Beck came through
the longest match of the tournament,
defeating Katarzyna Piter of Poland,
6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5) in 3 hours,
12 minutes.
Wozniacki advances; Stephens out
STOCKHOLM---French wild-card
entry Benoit Paire beat second-
seeded Milos Raonic 7-6 (3), 6-3
yesterday to reach the semifinals of
the Stockholm Open.
Paire will face seventh-seeded
Grigor Dimitrov today after the Bul-
garian beat left-handed Kenny De
Schepper of France 6-4, 6-2.
Top-seeded David Ferrer of Spain
also advanced when his quarterfinal
opponent, countryman Fernando
Verdasco, pulled out because of an
abdominal injury.
Ferrer will face fifth-seeded
Ernests Gulbis of Latvia, who had
more of a struggle as he advanced
with a 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 win over Jerzy
Janowicz of Poland in little over 2
hours.
Paire reaches next round